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Community Voice: Dalit Manual Scavengers and THAMATE’s Efforts for  the Rights of the Community ​

​The video testimony presents an overview of Manual Scavenger community in Karnataka, which is a Dalit community, where people of the community are considered as “untouchable” by the dominant castes.  ​View More
Denial of Maternal Health Rights in State Run Facilities in Jharkhand

​In spite of a series of maternal health facilities and schemes listed out by the Indian Government, women refrain from getting deliveries conducted at the state run health facilitates due to   negative experiences  of abuse and neglect by health service providers,  seen with overcharging and out of pocket expenditure for services that are offered for free.  ​View More
Impact of Malnutrition and Hunger in Raichur District of Karnataka

​The Video testimony is from Raichur district,from the state of Karnataka, India, spells out the challenges of a family who has a severely malnourished child. The family with their meagre earnings have put all their resources towards the treatment of their child to ensure its survival. View More
Social Accountability Initiative in Kenya:  Snapshot of HERAF’s Accountability Practice 

​The audio visual reflects upon the community monitoring based work of HERAF in Kenya. It orients initiatives of community monitoring by HERAF and different steps initiated as  training of community health workers, community monitors,  data collection, development of score cards and action planning.  View More
Community Based Monitoring in Bulgaria

The film showcases the results of community monitoring through ‘community inquiry’, including periodical consultation (twice in the year) with the local communities about the health services they receive. View More
Empowering Citizens to Demand for their Health Rights, UGANDA

This film highlights how Uganda National Health User’s/Consumer’s Organization took initiatives to empower communities to negotiate for their health rights. 
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Denial of Maternal Health Rights in Bidar, Karnataka

The Video testimony from village Shamboli of Bidar district in Karnataka outlines the tale of Neelambika, who died after giving birth to  her third child, due to lack of proper timely health care services during the delivery. View More
Engaging Marginalised Communities in the process of Accountability in Health : COPASAH Perspectives and Experiences 

This webinar session was facilitated by E. Premdas Pinto from COPASAH on November 17, 2014
Accountability Lab: Critical Accountability Issues for Practitioners of Accountability in Health 

This video is on accountability lab  is facilitated by Dr. Abhijit Das from Centre for Health and Social Justice aiming to bring clarity among practitioners on the various perspectives on accountability. 
Challenges and Good Practices in Drug-Dependence Treatment Among Minors 
This video material was prepared as part of the project "Introducing drug-related treatment for children", implemented by HOPS - Healthy Options Project Skopje. The video was filmed during the study visit to Vienna, which took place from May 12 to May 14, 2013, attended by representatives of relevant institutions of the Republic of Macedonia working in the field of treatment, rehabilitation and re-socialization of drug users. "Dialog Gudrunstraße", which is working on treatment, rehabilitation and re-socialization of children who use drugs for several years, hosted the study visit, and the participants also visited other institutions in Vienna specialized for drug addiction or youth care. The objective of this video material is to be used for sharing the experience with other representatives of relevant institutions included in the social and health system of Macedonia and to help in resolving the problem with children who use drugs. 

Our Health Our Money

Health related expenditures have been identified as one of the major causes of rural impoverishment in many developing countries including India. The declining  financial resources allocated  by the state has  resulted in forcing  people to pay from their pocket for health care even as the  unofficial and informal payments continue in whatever public health services that are still delivered.  The inadequacy shown by the community in asking any question on the functioning of the health system and more so regarding the utilization of the financial resources in health such as untied funds to the PHC, sub-centre and to each of the Village Health Nutrition and Sanitation Committees (VHNSC) or the disbursement of Maternal Protection Scheme (Janani Suraksha Yojana  -JSY) etc., has been a critical area which needed intervention.  The community monitoring and planning  advocated by civil society and also  promoted by the government under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) has yielded positive results. However, it has been an uphill task to include the issues of health budget and flow of money into the processes of monitoring which is a challenging task. This documentary captures such an effort done in 12 villages of Bolangir district, Orissa State, India where community is taught as to the money that is allocated to various schemes at the community level to  deliver health entitlements. Such demand for accountability is done while the community is actively engaging with the public health system within the larger processes of community mobilisation and monitoring to demand accountability from the health system.  Our Health Our Money, a film produced by CHSJ showcases the work done in Odisha around decentralised monitoring of health expenditure. The film is 25 minutes, with English subtitles.

Balkans Guatemala Exchange

From November 28-December 5, 2012, seven organizations working with Roma population in the Balkans, participated in an exchange with the Center for Studies of Equity and Governance in Health Systems (CEGSS), Guatemala.  This video summarizes the different activities carried-out during that visit. CLICK HERE to watch on Vimeo

Emerging Voice 2012 in Beijing- Rakhal Gaitonde from India

To see the full details about the Beijing session, please CLICK HERE

Community Based Monitoring in Maharasthra (India)

Common people are presenting evidence on the shortcomings of public health services. They are working for removing these shortcomings, and are making health services accountable in relation to issues raised by them. We must admit that all this is unprecedented. This is happening because of the process of Community Based Monitoring (CBM) which is bringing about a new awareness about health services. We are showing a glimpse of this process briefly through this film. This film was produced by SATHI. NRHM Community Based Monitoring is implemented through AGCA..

Social Participation for Equity in Health in Guatemala

A short video clip on empowering rural indigenous communities in Guatemala to participate in health planning and undertake community monitoring demand accountability from public health authorities. The video clip was produced by CEGSS, Guatemala.

Voices from the Ground

A short video clip on community empowerment on maternal health rights. This was a field project of "International Initiative on Maternal Health and Human Rights" and this video was produced by SAHAYOG, India

Reviewing Hopes Realizing Rights

A short video clip on community based monitoring of health services under National Rural Health Mission in India. This film was produced by CHSJ. 
NRHM Community Based Monitoring is implemented through AGCA.